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- Date:
- Monday , October 12, 2009
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 Review
Performance on a budget! That is what AMD is bringing you today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series. The new HD 5750 and HD 5770 are priced to sell, but don’t skimp on gaming performance, all while staying cool and power efficient. We have also added Resident Evil 5 and Batman: AA to our gameplay testing.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
We are using the full Steam version of Batman: Arkham Asylum patched to version 1.1. We have an evaluation of this game in the works, so stand by for a complete overview. In the meantime, this is an Unreal Engine 3 game and does support PhysX, and we are going to treat that like any other game. We will use PhysX where appropriate, which is not here in this evaluation. Due to support issues, we have to use the ATI control panel to force on AA, while NVIDIA video cards may use in-game AA settings. We have also forced on 16X AF on all video cards. Our run-through in this evaluation is going to be the very first mission, "Intensive Treatment." We found this first level to actually be quite demanding on graphics, and other than the "Scarecrow" level, is one of the more graphically intensive areas. Through most of the game you are indoors, and performance is quite high since it is closed indoor spaces. Our run-through lasts ten minutes.
Highest Playable Settings Radeon HD 5770
Once again, we find ourselves being able to run at 2560x1600 No AA with the highest in-game settings on the Radeon HD 5770. Our average framerate was a high 41 FPS and our minimum never dropped below 30 FPS. The Radeon HD 4870 1GB is ever so slightly faster, but just barely; they are neck and neck here. We were also impressed how well the Radeon HD 5750 did, also allowing us to play at 2560x1600 NoAA with highest in-game settings.
Going to a lower resolution, such as 1920x1200 also yielded impressive results. We were able to play at no less than 8X AA at 1920x1200 on the ATI Radeon HD 5770!
Highest Playable Settings Radeon HD 5750
The Radeon HD 5750 was playable at 2560x1600 NoAA, same as the GeForce GTS 250. The GTS 250 performed slightly faster than the Radeon HD 5750, but just barely once again. The ATI Radeon HD 4770 was only able to play at 1920x1200 with No AA. Pushing it to 2X AA at 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 with No AA created a bottleneck on that video card. Therefore, the ATI Radeon HD 5750 allowed a much higher gameplay experience compared to the Radeon HD 4770.
Moving down to 1920x1200 we also found that the Radeon HD 5750 was very near playable at 4X AA at 1920x1200. There were some drops below 30 FPS, but they stayed in the upper 20’s. If that bothers you dropping down to 2X AA provided a large performance increase. This is still impressive for a $129 video card.
Apples to Apples
We are testing at 1920x1200 with 8X AA enabled with the highest in-game settings for the Radeon HD 5770 comparison. This should give you a good idea of memory bandwidth performance since we are running at a high 8X AA.
We are testing at 1920x1200 with 4X AA enabled with the highest in-game settings for the Radeon HD 5750 comparison.
Radeon HD 5770 Comparison
With 8X AA enabled at 1920x1200 you can see the Radeon HD 4870 1GB does lead over the Radeon HD 5770. However, we think that this isn’t a huge difference, and in fact this setting was playable on both video cards.
Radeon HD 5750 Comparison
The Radeon HD 5750 has a large performance improvement here over the Radeon HD 4770. The GeForce GTS 250 is just slightly faster than the Radeon HD 5750.